Re: Hi from Ukraine

On Friday 23 November 2001 21:03, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Am 23.11.01, Irina Rempt yscrifef:
> > No, it's Ilaini, the language I'm developing (I used to call it
> > Valdyan because it's the language of Valdyas before I knew what
> > its speakers call it).
>
> Wow, that's news to me! When did you find this out? And dare I
> ask what "Ilaini" means [hoping the natives won't roll their
> eyes in that "stupid foreigner" fashion and say "it's what
> we call 'language' dumdum!"]?
Sure :-)

It means, in fact, "(the) languages". The same way that the word for
"the world" is _arli_, "the realities". It's collective plural, to
signify that it's not one language, but all the mutually
understandable (well, if you live less than about 50 miles apart,
otherwise it takes some getting used to) dialects of the same
language taken together.

   irina

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           Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
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